Hey guys it's been awhile i know but here's the chapter you've been waiting for. I really hope you like it it's a birthday present for me and you. Enjoy
Disclaimer: i do not own any naruto characters if i did i would make jiryy and i would both share a birthday today
Chapter 11
(FLASHBACK)
A small girl sits in a corner, her eyes wide as she watches small children play together. Sakura really wanted to stay home and read her books but her parents forced her to go to this kid's birthday party. She at first was really excited going to her first party but when she got there kids started to stare at her.
"That girl's hair is weird, who has pink hair?" Sakura heard one girl say.
"I know and look at the size of her forehead." said another.
"What a freak." hearing these kids say such things made Sakura want to cry. She knew she shouldn't, for fear of her mother punishing her, but right now she didn't care. Burying her face into her lap she felt darkness wrap around her like a blanket as the whispers grew louder, Sakura could feel the tears swelling in her eyes.
"Hey, aren't you the one they keep teasing cause you got such a big forehead." Sakura heard a small voice say to her. Sakura looked up to see a pretty girl with golden blonde hair and the clearest blue eyes she had ever seen. The blonde haired girl stared at Sakura.
"Who are you?" Sakura said.
"Who, me, that's easy. My name is Ino Yamanaka. Who are you?" the girl asked.
"My name is Sakura", Sakura muttered still feeling uneasy around this girl. No one has ever actually talked for this long with her, well not without making fun of her hair and forehead in every other sentence.
"Huh, hello I can't hear you, let's try that again okay, who are you? "she asked. Sakura was getting irritated wouldn't this girl just leave her alone.
"My name is Sakura." she said raising her voice but not too loud trying not to draw extra unwanted attention.
"That's better, so this is the famous forehead huh?" the girl said poking that Sakura forehead, "Whoa! It is kind of big, so that's why you hide it behind you bangs."
Sakura knew it this girl was going to start picking on her. She readied herself for the taunting but instead felt Ino push her bangs out the way.
"That dumb" Ino said, "it just makes it worse. It just makes you look like a sheepdog."
Sakura was trying to hold in her tears but really the girls words were seriously getting to her.
"So your Sakura huh?" Sakura nodded at the girl, "Oh you know what I've got something special for you. Come to my house tomorrow okay."
(END FLASHBACK)
Sakura sighed as she walked into her small apartment. Tossing her keys onto a small table she fell onto her beat up red couch. Groaning at how lumpy the couch felt she wished she could afford a nicer one. Closing her eyes Sakura decided to ignore her lumpy couch and think about the events that had occurred today. Sakura explaining her findings, Tsunade pushing the fundraiser event onto her, running into that person.
Sakura thought she had closed and lock the door to her past. But seeing that person broke the lock causing memories to pour out. Memories of their first meeting, the fun they had together, the fighting. Sakura remembered how badly things went when they last saw each other. She always regretted the way they left things but she was too busy dealing with the pain of having her heart ripped out and tore to shreds.
She suddenly felt the urge to look back at the past. Going to her room, she went to the back of her closet and pulled out a box. Opening the box she pulled out a picture of them together. She smile as she looked how contrast her hair and eyes was from that person's. Her bubble pink her and emerald green next to their golden blonde and sky blue eyes. She at a table and Ino was draped over her arms wrapped around her neck. Sakura smiled at the picture of her best friend.
"Ino, you haven't changed a bit, but I guess now you went from high class socialite to middle class mom." Sakura said thinking about how she ran into Ino at the park. She also remembered her surprised when a small pale faced little boy with gray eyes and blonde her ran up to her long lost friend. Calling her mommy and telling her that it was time to go pick up his daddy. Ino made sure though before leaving that she gave Sakura her number.
The little boy was around the age of when Ino and Sakura first met. Sakura remember how she decided to go over Ino's house and her mother was all too happy to mingle with other socialite and when she got there Ino pulled her into her room, it was a large lavish room with many toys, expensive clothes and more. Once in there Ino gave her a beautiful silk red ribbon. Sakura remember how Ino had stood back to examine her work. Ino had looked pretty proud of herself when she had proclaimed, "There, see what an improvement, you look a lot better. You can keep the ribbon."
"Oh thanks but." I had said looking down at my feet
"What?" Ino had ask.
"What about my forehead?" I said trying to cover my forehead with my small hand
"Oh come on." Ino said, "I'm telling you. The more you try and hide it, the more you make a bigger deal out you make of it. Your face isn't even that bad, actually it's a pretty good face. You just gotta have more confidence."
"Confidence?" I had said to myself thinking the words over in my head. That was the day that Sakura not only got a very first friend but started taking her very first steps down the road to becoming more proud of who she was. Sakura sighed thinking back, she wondered when she had stopped that path and took a step back toward her changing herself for the approval of others. Then Sasuke came along and somehow gave her the necessary push she needed.
"Sasuke", she whispered. Sakura wasn't going to lie and say that Sasuke never cross her mind in these years but she always push his image away quickly. But, thinking of the past she couldn't help but wonder where he was right now. What was he doing for himself, maybe he settled down and has a family now. Or, could he be his same old self breaking girls' hearts. Entrancing girls with his onyx eyes filled with danger, lust, and a promise of something more.
'Have I ever crossed your mind Sasuke?' she thought as she pulled out the lighter that Sasuke had given to her. It's silver back still shined like it did back then. When she was younger she really wanted to toss it to get rid of the remainder of the man who tore her heart to shred. But she couldn't bring herself to toss it not matter how much she wanted to. She flicked the lighter and a flame came out of it entrance her with the flame.
Suddenly the ringing of her phone phone pulled her out of her trace. Realizing that she left it in the living room she raced back the to get it.
Reaching her phone just in time she answered in, "Haruno speaking, may I ask who this is?"
"Hello Sakura it's me Shizune, I was calling to see when you plan to schedule a meeting with our partner cooperation? Lady Tsunade and I are planning to leave the country within the next two weeks. We'd like to see all you have planned out before before we go." Shizune said through the phone.
"Do you and Lady Tsunade not trust me enough to complete the task without supervision?" Sakura said, still a little angered by the fact that she couldn't deal with the patient x case.
"No, of course not Sakura." Shizune responded quickly, "It's not that we don't trust you but this is your first time handling an event like this and it would give us a piece of mind knowing that some bumps in the road have been cleared before we left. You should know very well that my Lady and I believe in your skills and attention to detail. We just want to make sure everything goes smoothly for you, that is all."
Sakura immediately felt bad, sighing to herself she said, "I know Shizune, I'm sorry about lashing out at you I'm just a little on edge right now. I had been working really hard on the patient X case and all of a sudden I'm taken off of it and placed on fundraisers. Plus, I ran into someone from my past and everything is just getting to me."
"I understand, but Sakura, Tsunade and I both believe that this experience will help you grow as a person. The patient x case although extremely important, we had noticed that it was consuming you. You rarely did anything on your days off other than research patient X, you never hanged out with any friends or went on any dates. Frankly, you would go on research binges where you wouldn't sleep or eat for days. This charity event will be good for you trust us Sakura." Shizune gently said to her through the phone.
After a while more of talking Sakura and Shizune ended the call. Sakura feeling hungry she made her way into the kitchen and started fixing herself some food. Her stomach growled louder at the sight of food. She then realize that she hadn't eaten since yesterday morning. Sighing she realized that Shizune was right, Sakura had been neglecting herself since starting the project. She can't even remember the last time she went on a date, not that she hadn't
been asked before. Maybe it was time for her to take a break from patient x and focus on something else. Taking out the number, she left a message with the secretary telling her that she would like to schedule a meeting within the next few days.
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